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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Date: 4 Sep 2015 15:56:27 GMT
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On 2015-09-04, Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
> On 9/3/15 9:49 PM, nospam wrote:
>
>> first of all, the very first sentence is a strawman. nobody (other than
>> those with an agenda) has ever said os x is invincible. what people
>> have said is that os x is very hard to compromise, and it is.
>
> But the reputation was that Macs were invincible.  And I never saw/heard 
> of any effort to deny the reputation.

Bullshit. This supposed "reputation" is manufactured by Apple haters and
trolls who claim that Mac users are smug and think their machines are
invincible. The rest of us have no such silly illusions. And claiming we
do doesn't magically make it so.

> Articles that old aren't worth the time and effort to read.  Those 
> issues are likely fixed.

You see whatever you want to see, clearly. Have fun with that.

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